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I’m a 3rd-year PhD student candidate in the Natural Language Processing Group at the University of British Columbia, where I’m advised by Jian Zhu and Vered Shwartz. My research is supported by a Doctoral Scholarship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and an award from the Public Scholars Initiative. I'm broadly interested in applied and theoretical aspects of multilingual natural language processing, and I work with both text and audio modalities. Before I came to UBC, I completed my MSc in the Computational Linguistics group at the University of Toronto. Prior to graduate school, I completed my Bachelor of Science (Honours Computer Science) at the University of Toronto.
For the 2023-2024 academic year, I was visiting at the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering, where I was fortunate to be working with Prof. Yulia Tsvetkov’s group.
I’m currently a research intern at Ai2 Aristo, working on understanding the capabilities and limitations of AI-assisted data analysis.
Locating Information Gaps and Narrative Inconsistencies Across Languages: A Case Study of LGBT People Portrayals on Wikipedia
Submitted.
Farhan Samir, Chan Young Park, Anjalie Field, Vered Shwartz, Yulia Tsvetkov
The taste of IPA: Towards open-vocabulary keyword matching and forced alignment in any language
NAACL 2024 [to appear]
Jian Zhu, Changbing Yang, Farhan Samir, Jahurul Islam
Understanding compositional data augmentation in typologically diverse morphological inflection
EMNLP 2023 [oral presentation] [🏆 outstanding paper award]
Farhan Samir, Miikka Silfverberg
[preprint]
One Wug, Two Wug+s Transformer Inflection Models Hallucinate Affixes
ComputEL @ ACL 2022 [oral presentation]
Farhan Samir, Miikka Silfverberg
[paper]
Quantifying cognitive factors in lexical decline
TACL
David Francis, Ella Rabinovich, Farhan Samir, David Mortensen, Suzanne Stevenson
A formidable ability: Detecting adjectival extremeness with Distributional Semantic Models
ACL Findings 2021
Farhan Samir, Barend Beekhuizen, Suzanne Stevenson
Summer 2024, Seattle WA
PhD Research Intern, Aristo team. Mentors: Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder, Bhavana Dalvi, Harshit Surana, Ben Bogin, Lucy Lu Wang, Peter Clark
Summer 2023, Sunnyvale CA
Applied Scientist Intern @ Amazon Science. Mentors: Daniel Elkind & Timothy Leffel.
Summer 2022, Toronto ON
Worked with Griffin Lacey and Graham Taylor on developing scalable Transformer-based Graph Neural Networks.
I'm interested in advising undergraduate students (or applied master's students) on doing high-quality multilingual NLP research, specifically students who have no prior NLP research experience. I'm open to working with students from any disciplinary background.
I don't have any more capacity for the upcoming term (Summer 2024), but I will be looking for new mentees to work with in the Fall. Feel free to reach out to me at [email protected] to discuss opportunities.
Current mentees:
Benjamin Movassagh (UBC; co-advised with EunJeong Hwang)
Former mentees:
Angela Li (UBC; co-advised with Prof. Miikka Silfverberg)